Exercise 1: Temporary Drawing: Part 1

My first attempt is a drawing which I did with my cell phone of this tree etched against the sky. I filmed it moving the camera up and down on a time lapse setting. Unfortunately the video wont load here but it did teach me to look in a different way - I enjoyed the black, sketchy almost charcoal like marks the rapid movement with the camera made. Is it drawing? I wondered about this... see - the shape became swift and distorted and almost fluid-like. It made me think about time lapse in general and how we see the world as solid only because it is slow. Speeded up all would be a blur of light and energy, movement. No definite lines and then, even faster maybe only that - a line. Kinda circular and meaningless really, but I am getting beyond myself now!

The second is found leaves twigs and sand. I loved that it reflected texture, nature, I also loved being able to walk away from it and know that it would be gone tomorrow - it was freeing. I wouldnt be able to look at it again and judge it. It was there for the moment perfect. Maybe only my eyes saw it...

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Section 3: COMPOSITION. Research Point.

Contemporary Artists working with landscape and a range of viewpoints. Georges Seurat, Landscape with houses. 1881. Conte Crayon Tacita Dean, Fatigues. 2012. Chalk on Blackboard Mark Tansy, Reveler, 2012. Oil on canvas. The subjects of Mark Tansey's work is set in, for the most part, landscapes and he uses and manipulates these to serve the purpose of the allegory that he wishes to convey through the use of images which are paradoxical and at times absurdly but never, randomly placed on the canvas. I love his work and have included it here to compare the three works as they all monochromatic and unusual to their approach in viewpoint. In all three works there is a strong sense of division in the picture plane. The first two the space is divided horizontally and in the last vertically - Tansey's work has a strong sense of symmetry, both vertically and horizontally and this further emphasised by the repetition of this element in the mirror. Tonally the works are also...

Section 3: PERSPECTIVE. Exercise 2

As the weather continued to be rainy and wet, and as I did not want to work from a photo, I did a drawing of the buildings below my flat as seen from the 29th floor. This obviously changed the angle on the perspective and the horizon line. Using my pencil as a guide I checked the angles and proportions against those that I drew. As you can perhaps see, the horizon line was probably higher than what I thought it was .. some of the orthogonal lines were off...

Section 2: STILL LIFE: Exercise 2: Still life using Tone and Color

I did 2 completed studies for this exercise. The first is in chalk pastels on a dark ground. I thought that the dark ground was useful in contrasting the light areas but that the medium is more difficult to control. I also felt that the composition was successful and I enjoy the contrasting rectangular spaces which off-set the round shapes of the bottles and fruit. The second work was rendered in watercolour pencils and I felt that the medium was far more conducive to accurately capturing the variations in tone and colour. Overall I was more pleased with the first composition as it seemed a bit more interesting and dramatic in a sense.

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